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Inscription: 832/9.f.29

Object information

Awaiting location update

Titles

Inscription
Inscription

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Flaxman, John

Entities

Categories

Description

The sketchbook has been used upside down: f.29 recto is the end of the inscription beginning on f.30 verso.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1916-12) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Graphite
Ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Leaf Height 179 mm Width 106 mm

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Pen and ink with graphite on laid paper

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: upside down

  • Text: Clio - for lodare - hramia - Melpomone / on the top a banquet - the muses delighted in Guests / at one end is Omero & Calliope / Socrates & Philosophy - or memory / Sarcophagus of Diana &d under[sic] the alter / Maggiore of St Eastachio_ the Pope are / the 3 fates the past holds a book the / present the scales & the future the thread / in middle pluto & Proserpine, the marrd[sic] pair / Mercury & Nemesis - / &d at the mouth of the ancient Port of / [?]Ostium 3 altars atton[?] to Neptune for the Sailors / Centaurs [?]d near Hadrians Villa-
  • Location: Recto
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: fr lem of N- bu by Ag- / Death of Meleags-
  • Location: Recto, below the above
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Inscription present: upside down

  • Text: Love being the first principle of the Embodied[?] / Soul - see Cupid & Psyche - Prometheus model / woman minerva giving the soul to Man / tree for food, behind them - two figures over Prometheus / are clote who begins to spin his thread - of Destiny / writing on the Globe she leans on a column & on anota / column is the sun dial to mark the fleeting hour / The Standg[sic] figure may be nemesis - or History / & Memory - the Angelical farfalla[?] takes / her flight conducted by Mercury / Prometheus bound to caucusus for having / form'd Man & taught him the Sciences - his / foot rests on Earthe Hercules shoots the Eagle / for which died Kyginas places him among the / Constellations - as Sagittarius - allus on the / Tree of Pomo d'oro of the Hesperides Gardns / Sulla via Ostia 3 miles fi Rome Alixandro / Severus had a villa here was found this hou[sic] / of the Muses, orginally bu[?] three - given to / 3 different workmen the middle figure Philosophy / Clio Aellione[?] Thalia Euterpe+ terpsichore with Pipes / middle figure in a contemplative position is / Erata who presides over the Philosophy+ / Polyhymnia in act of gesticulation - she is on / the Homeric column at Palace Colonna [?] as also dog[?] the / head dress
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 832/9.f.29
Primary reference Number: 39668
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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